Thursday, March 29, 2007

Vista - Arrogance & Stupidity

Upgrading to Windows Vista has been banned by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), technology giant Texas Instruments and other corporations and government agencies. These organizations are evaluating their options, but overseas it's turning into a stampede to get out of Microsoft software.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Newsflash

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

Friday, March 9, 2007

Low Cost Laptop at Circuit City

The e-mail I received today from Circuit City featured a $399 (after rebate) laptop computer. Nice laptop that I had seen in the store with 512MB of memory, 60GB hard drive, dvd burner, etc.

The reason why such a low, almost-a-closeout price???

Microsoft Vista pre-installed!!!

Thursday, March 8, 2007

USA Today on Vista

I continue to see poor reviews in the mainstream press concerning the new Microsoft products, not only Vista but also Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7. Here is one from Andrew Kantor in USA Today!

Glad I use Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org, and Ubuntu!!!

Sunday, March 4, 2007

A Million Penguins

If a million monkeys with typewriters could write the complete works of Shakespeare, what could a million penguins do?

Find out at this Penguin Books site!!!

Friday, March 2, 2007

Dell Slowing Down Linux Support?

Dell seems to be waffling a bit on it's Linux ideas.

Too bad. From what I have heard and read about Vista, now is the time for a progressive company to capitalize on the Linux potential.

Wonder if Bill had a talk with Mike about OEM pricing.

Read about the Dell slowdown here...